After planting it is essential that the site be revisited frequently to ensure any problems are tackled as soon as possible.During the maintenance period there are a number of things to monitor in the plantation.Each season of the year demands different activities within the plantation.The main activities within the maintenance phase are weed ...

The custody chain for forestry products includes the monitoring of wood-based products through the different phases of transformation and sales processes, to ensure wood traceability, from the forest to the final consumer. Any company belonging to primary or secondary wood transformation sector, that wishes to demonstrate that its final products ...

As deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries accounts for approximately 20% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, measures to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) are considered essential to prevent dangerous climate change. An international climate agreement including REDD+ is under ...

Responding to public concerns on the issue of illegal logging and deforestation, in 2003, the European Commission adopted the EU Action Plan for FLEGT. The key regions and countries targeted, which together contain nearly 60% of the world’s forest and supply a large proportion of internationally traded timber, are places familiar to LTS - ...